First Lady of the Nation Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower receives the 'Mother of the Year' award at White House in Washington D.C. Members of the committee 'Mother of the Year' are seen. Mrs. Jane Maxwell Pritchard has a chat with Mrs. Eisenhower.
A Curtiss Model D Biplane with a wheeled tri-cycled undercarriage on field. A tent hangar in the background.
Embassies honor British Monarch King George V in Washington D.C. Flags of Nations are dropped to half staff on the official residences of the representatives in America's capital in solemn tribute to the British Monarch King George V following his death. He died at the age of seventy.
Prime Minister of United Kingdom Clement Attlee arrives at the airport in Washington D.C. He is greeted by dignitaries. Prime Minister Attlee arrives at White House for talk with President Truman relating mainly to atomic bomb control. President Truman pays tribute to those who died in World War at the 'Tomb of the unknown soldier'. Prime Minister Attlee and Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King accompany him in the ceremony after which conferences will take place.
Senator of Tennessee Carey Kefauver at a press conference in Washington D.C. He announces that he will campaign for the Democratic candidacy for the Presidential elections in 1956.
President Eisenhower in a press conference at White House in Washington D.C. The President voices his firm conviction that forces should not be employed in the Suez Canal crisis.
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